Courses Quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Traditionally, images have functioned as representations of something in the world, but we are quickly approaching the point where vast majority of images are…

— Trevor Paglen

All of us tend to look at photographs as if we are simply gazing through a two-dimensional window onto some outside world. This is…

— Geoffrey Batchen

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it…

— David Hockney

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism…

— Burt Rutan

A photograph can look anyway. It just depends basically on what you photograph.

— Garry Winogrand

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar…

— Susan Sontag

We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking…

— Fred Ritchin

It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera... they are made with the eye, heart and head.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped world very…

— Brené Brown

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to…

— Lisette Model

My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and…

— Alfred Stieglitz

A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

— Sid Grossman